# Multiple sprains, strains, tears at SARK WIRE CORPORATION
> OSHA SIR `2019021845` · 2/19/2019 · ALBANY, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple sprains, strains, tears
## Cause
- **Event:** Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode
- **Source:** Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
## Employer
- **Name:** SARK WIRE CORPORATION
- **Location:** 120 INDUSTRIAL PARK RD., ALBANY, NEW YORK, 12206
- **NAICS:** 331420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At 1:37 p.m. on February 19, 2019, a temporary employee was taking an empty 280-pound steel wire reel off a machine when he suddenly felt pain in his neck and back and fell to the floor. He was hospitalized, having suffered sprains/strains of ligaments of the cervical spine and a contusion of the left shoulder.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*